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The head of the is a supporter who wants to cripple the country to get Trump elected.

This is head , strong trump supporter, who already said he would cripple the economy: “I will cripple you.”

The first October surprise from Trump. The port workers strike will try to paint President Biden as anti-union. Trump & Daggett are friends, the same age & were both from Queens, New York.

Trump supporter & ILA head Harold Daggett: “I will cripple you.”

To be abundantly clear, they were offered a 50% raise BEFORE they went on .

From the WSJ:

The Profane 78-Year-Old Leading the Strike

‘They won’t be able to do anything in this country without my people,’ port chief says in setting *audacious targets* in a coastwide

Harold Daggett stood in front of the closed gates at the Port of New York & New Jersey just after midnight Tues & delivered a battle cry to hundreds of members of his that represents from Maine to Texas.

“We’re going to show these greedy bastards you can’t survive without us!” Daggett shouted to cheers from the crowd in a speech filled w/profanities & warnings about the threats automation poses to workers.

[listen, if he actually were doing this for the , fine. But he’s not. He just wants the country to blame & for a downturn in the economy so gets elected]


wsj.com/articles/harold-dagget

Images of the President of the ’s meeting w/ circulated on socialmedia as the went on strike Tues.
The images are pulled from a July post on the union's website where union President asked for members to "pray" for Trump in the wake of the assassination attempt in PA.
In the post Daggett recalled a 2023 meeting w/ Trump where the fmr president appeared to express support for the .

usatoday.com/story/news/politi

USA TODAY · Why an old photo of Trump, Longshoreman's president returned to prominence with strikeBy , USA TODAY

@Nonilex
It kills me that this is going to mean many people's loudest experience of #unions will be the ILA.
It's like the single remaining union that fits the corruption stereotype from the early 20th century.

(Pour one out for #TheWire Season 2)

Nonilex

@ohmu

I hope not. I taught 4th grade at a public school in East LA for a decade & I was my school’s union rep. Unions do a lot of great things – though they are not perfect. And, as in every walk of life, there are bad apples & greedy corrupt people. It seems to be a prerequisite for people who support Trump.